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The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Benjamin Cardozo

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.
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Long Running Swim
Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.
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Balance Fairness Justice
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Eternity Eye Prophet
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity – please observe, a plodding mediocrity – for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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Distance Doe Joy
We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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Finding Illusion Mind Peace
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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Judging Knights Roaming
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
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Example Hands Humility

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